How to Dub a Camcorder Recording to DVD

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Rokosz, your digital lifestyle expert. So you've got some great footage on your camcorder and you need to burn it to your DVD disc. Well, I'm going to show you exactly how to do that, if you've got the right gear. First thing you need is a DVD burner, little bit different than a DVD player, you need a DVD burner. If you don't have one, well you got to go get one and I mean seriously, they're awesome. And all you're going to do there is get in some good blank DVD media and place it inside the unit. Okay. Hooking up the camcorder is where the real art comes into play, let me show you. First of all you got to decide what kind of outputs your camcorder has. In this case here the Sony has a multiple output. I'm going to use this cable over here. Happens to be an Apple cable but it works just the same way, Sony has it, you can tell, it's going to have three prongs up the top and three out here. One, maybe see the yellow for video, red for right channel, excuse me, yeah I keep the red over here for right channel and white for left channel. And hooking it up to this one again this is product specific. I'm going to put it into the multi video out part, and I'm going to take my DVD burner here and I'm going to hook it up properly. Now I'm looking for line in, okay, yes video is out, the other ones are out, so these are the only ones I can choose from. Line in, is going to be here, red to right, white to left, yellow to yellow, boom, we're all set over here. Now basically all that's left is for me to put in a blank piece of media in there, and there's some other choices that you might want to consider, high quality, low quality, how much disk space you want to take up. But that's going to be in the manual for the particular DVD burner that you have, and it's simply as easy as doing a dub and traditional dubs are like this. You push play and pause on the media that you want to record, and you do record and pause on the one that you want to record onto. Now a lot of times what you'll do is you'll let the one, actually a good trick is to back up the player about five seconds before you actually want it to start recording, then you unpause it, more than play, it's an unpause, and that gives you five seconds to hit the unpause on the record function, pick up right where you want your dub to be, and you're in real time dubbing and burner, from whatever media your camcorder is, right to the very useful DVD. And I'm the very useful Rokosz, your digital lifestyle expert saying stream you later."